Rihanna asks for some leniency for Brown

Rihanna is feeling some mercy for Chris Brown.

The “Umbrella” singer feels the restraining order is too severe. Brown pleaded guilty of assaulting her in February and must keep 50 yards away from her at all times.

Instead, Rihanna feels a level-one protective restraining order would be sufficient.

Her lawyer Donald Etra said: “That order would prevent Chris from annoying, molesting or harassing her. That level-one order would fully protect her.

“The order in effect now is a stay-away order preventing them from coming within 50 yards of each other. But Rihanna’s position from the beginning is that there was no need for that level of protective order.”

Brown was formally sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to assault in June and was sentenced to five years’ probation, 180 days of community service and an anti-domestic violence program.

Since the attack, Chris and Rihanna have been spotted together on several occasions and are rumored to have rekindled their romance.

Recently, they both reportedly stayed at New York’s Trump International Hotel and Tower under a “cloak of secrecy”.